The following are a collection of LLM translations from Classical Chinese to English. The texts are sourced from the daizhigev20 database of Classical Chinese (文言文) texts located here. The model used for translation can be found at the top of each individual document. The code for generation can be found on GitHub here.
Translations on this site shouldn't be considered reliable translations of the source language. Rather, we see AI as a tool in allowing users to find the texts, without spending excessive time attempting to understand complex Classical Chinese texts. Through markers in the original and translated text, the source Chinese is consistently tied to the translation. Upon finding a passage, the user can conduct a further close reading of the passage.
In the future, we plan to integrate a search tool to search for concepts across documents, as well as improving translation quality, and supporting the entire daizhigev20 database. Created by an interdisciplinary team at the University of Maryland, College Park from the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing (CLIP) Lab in the Department of Computer Science.
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